A Critique of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation

ville: Broadman and Holman, 1995),
128; also W. H. Schmidt, “br’, to create,”
1:256; and William P. Brown,
“Creation,” in Eerdmans Dictionary
of the Bible, ed. David Noel Freedman
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
2000), 293.
119 Paul J. Achtemeier, Romans (Interpretation;
Atlanta: John Knox, 1985),
82.
120 Ernst Käsemann, Commentary on
Romans (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1980), 123.
121 Ibid.
122 Bernhard W. Anderson, “Creation,”
Interpreter’s Dictionary of the
Bible (4 vols.; Nashville: Abingdon,
1962), 1:728.
123 Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Romans (Anchor
Bible 33; New York: Doubleday,
1993), 383.
124 Jaroslav Pelikan, “Creation and
Causality in the History of Christian
Thought,” in Evolution After
Darwin, ed. Sol Tax and Charles Callender,
(3 vols.; Chicago: University
Press, 1960), 34.
125 Craig Koester, Hebrews (Anchor
Bible 36; New York: Doubleday,
2001), 99-100. The preposition ek/ex,
which can mean “out of,” can also be
translated causally, as it parallels “by
the word of God.” The sense would
then be that the visible comes into
existence by the invisible (Ibid., 474).
As an aside, one could argue that
even on view (2), creatio ex nihilo is
hardly excluded since it is possible
to speak of God’s bringing about
the world out of nothing material
(after all, He created all things,
whether visible or invisible); He simply
speaks, and a cosmos—ordered
according to the Ideas or Forms in
the divine Mind—is brought into
being.
126 William L. Lane, Hebrews 9-13
(Word Biblical Commentary 47B;
Dallas: Word, 1991), 326-27; see also
Ronald Williamson, Philo and the
Epistle to the Hebrews (Leiden: Brill,
1970), 377-9; and Philip Edgecumbe
Hughes, The Epistle to the Hebrews
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977),
443.
127 Lane, Hebrews 9-13, 326-27. See also
Hughes, Hebrews, 443.
128 See Maxmilian Zerwick, Biblical
Greek (Rome: Pontifical Institute,
1963), § 352, 122.
129 Lane, Hebrews 9-13, 332.
130 Douglas J. Moo, The Epistle to the
Romans (New International Greek
Testament Commentary; Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996), 743.
131 Mounce, Romans, 227.
132 Thomas R. Schreiner, Romans
(Baker Exegetical Commentary on
the New Testament; Grand Rapids:
Baker, 1998), 637.
133 Dunn, Theology of Paul the Apostle,
268; Richard Bauckham, God Crucified,
38. Bauckham notes that what
Paul does is reproduce the words of the
statement about Yahweh and make them
apply to both the Father and Christ.
Paul is thus including Jesus in the
divine identity, redefining monotheism
as christological monotheism.
134 F. F. Bruce, I & II Corinthians (New
Century Bible; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1971), 80.
135 Dunn, Theology of Paul the Apostle,
267.
136 Walter Bauer, A Greek-English
Lexicon of the New Testament and
Other Early Christian Literature, ed.
Frederick W. Danker (2 nd ed.; Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
1979), 456.
137 Walter Bauer, A Greek-English
Lexicon of the New Testament and
Other Early Christian Literature, ed.
Frederick W. Danker, (3 rd ed.; Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2000), 572.
138 Corresponds, that is, in chiastic
fashion.
139 P. T. O’Brien, Colossians, Philemon
(Word Biblical Commentary 44;
Waco, TX: Word, 1982), 46.
140 Barth and Blanke, Colossians, 200.
O’Brien sees these invisible things
(“thrones, dominions, etc.) as hostile
angelic powers (Colossians, Philemon
46). On such a view, if we see the
things “unseen” as referring to
thrones and dominions and principalities
and powers, they still find
their source and temporal origination
in Christ.
141 Barth and Blanke, Colossians, 199.
142 Ibid.
143 Jürgen Moltmann, God in Creation:
A New theology of Creation and the
Spirit of God (Minneapolis: Fortress,
1985), 74.
144 Stephen Ricks, “Ancient Views,”
328.
145 Richard J. Bauckham, Jude, 2 Peter
(Word Biblical Commentary; Waco,
TX: Word, 1983), 297.
146 Thomas Schreiner, 1 and 2 Peter,
Jude (New American Commentary
37; Nashville: Broadman & Holman,
2003), 374.
147 Ibid.
148 Douglas J. Moo, 2 Peter, Jude (NIV
Application Commentary; Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), 170.
149 C. F. D. Moule, Idiom Book of the New
Testament Greek (2 nd ed.; Cambridge:
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